 They're very sensitive to heat
Mine love to go outside, heat, cold, rain, or snow, but I limit them to ten minutes out when it's hot (85f or more). Two of them like the outdoors so much they'd stay there until they dropped dead of heat exhaustion if I allowed it. Simply keeping a bowl of water outside for them isn't enough in extreme temperatures. They can still overheat even if they don't dehydrate.
It's a very, very good idea to keep some Pedialyte at your house for emergencies. This will help them recover from illnesses that cause them to throw up when you can't feed them. This applies not only to dogs, cats, etc., but any small mammal. One of my ferrets was on it for days after a bad reaction to a distemper shot.
It comes in a lot of different flavors, and I always keep one bottle of the unflavored and one bottle of a fruit flavor. I give the fruit flavor ONLY if they won't take the unflavored, which basically tastes like water. The fruit flavors are fine if they're used very sparingly. You just don't want to get them addicted to sweet drinks and encourage them to be finicky. |